ENFORCEMENT OF PROHIBITION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17178, 23 October 1923, Page 11

ENFORCEMENT OF PROHIBITION.

FEDERAL CONTROL WANTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, October 21. The recent movement among the various bodies, and individuals, for better enforcement of the prohibition law, continues to grow in strength. The Methodist Episcopal Temperance Board has issued a statement to the effect that Mr A. W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Mr Blair, I neither by conviction nor by inclination. were fitted for the responsibility oi discharging their duty. The board claims that the C’ommiscoinpletelv enforce prohibition it* given an opportunity, and calls upon President Coolidge to take personal charge of the enforcement of the Volstead law. asking him to demand that the America people shall obey prohibition. if only because it is the law fitted by American policy. The board also calls upon the State governors to co-operate. _Mr Gifford Pinchot. Governor of Pennsylvania, has issued another statement contending that the States can do little, and that the Federal Government must assume the chief burden Charges are now being made that Pennsylvania is probably the wettest State in the Union.